WaterManagement

Water Check

CONSUMPTION and billing analysis to identify cost savings

The starting point of your company’s water saving journey is a water audit to understand consumption and billing across your estate.

The Waterscan Water Check service performs a comprehensive review of a recent water bill for each site in your property portfolio. If opportunities for savings and refunds are identified further historic analysis may be undertaken. Following this, we deliver a report detailing opportunities for improvement that are specific to your organisation, along with an offer to cleanse your property portfolio risk-free.

Through this analysis alone, we have delivered impressive savings of up to 55% of annual spend with further on site works offering even greater savings and retrospective refund opportunities.

Benefits

Up to 55% reduction in annual spend

Complimentary and no obligation - risk free water check of property portfolio

Identify refunds due from water companies

Gain an understanding of target usage by benchmarking against industry standards

A Water Check will comprehensively analyse your water bills

Identification of all types of billing anomalies (duplication, overestimation, overcharges)

Investigation of all fixed charges applied

Verification of allowances available

Validation of Surface Water Drainage charges

Assessment of average daily usage versus industry benchmark

Identification of excessive consumption

Confirmation of appropriate meter sizing

Investigation of Trade Effluent consents

Cross-referencing against successful precedents achieved nationwide

Validation of sector-specific opportunities

Invoice Validation Plus

Comprehensive water bill management, support and monitoring

Having your company’s water invoices validated by a specialist who understands the complexities of water company fees and charging structures can lead to significant financial savings as well as reducing internal administrative burdens.

The Waterscan Invoice Validation Plus service does not simply validate your invoice costs. Our service also analyses and benchmarks your bills against 20 years of industry data to identify all opportunities for reducing water costs and consumption. This service delivers ongoing support with regular invoice reviews to address incorrect charges and identify new opportunities for your business.

Our service exceeds many organisations who simply rely on a basic calculation to monitor water costs. However, our service goes beyond this, addressing areas such as meter size, tariffs, wastewater and surface water drainage charges plus an assessment of consumption against benchmark.

Our clients have realised exceptional savings after making the switch from having their water invoices validated through a multi-utility or other sole water service provider.

Water Audit

Site survey to validate consumption and identify wastage and cost savings

A Waterscan Water Audit provides you with a full understanding of where and how water is used, wasted and discharged from your property. It can be used to validate efficiency opportunities identified during our Water Check service or it can address specific requirements such as high consumption or potential leaks.

Recognising that each of your sites pose different challenges and have varying requirements, flexibility in our approach is necessary and this is where our knowledge and experience is paramount. Waterscan’s highly trained technicians have been operating for over 20 years and are best placed to ensure you maximise cost and consumption savings, reduce wastage and verify supply integrity.

As part of our comprehensive Water Audit, we may recommend, supply and install a range of water saving devices that reduce and control water consumption inside buildings. These may include:

CISTERN REDUCTION

An innovative water saving device installed into a WC cistern which reduces the amount of water used to flush.

EFFICIENT TAPS

Reduce the flow and volume through selected technology appropriate for your building.

URINAL CONTROLS

An intelligent flush control system that saves water by adjusting the flush according to the number of users detected.

THE WATER AUDIT WILL INCLUDE:

Verification of supply integrity and assessment of wastewater discharge

Identification of external leakage and internal inefficiencies

A review of all water points and facilities including verification of flow rates and recommendations to reduce where possible

Identification of process or behavioural inefficiencies and provision of recommendations to remedy

Identification of opportunities for water reuse such as rainwater harvesting

Leak Detection & Repair

NATIONWIDE WATER LEAK DETECTION

Water leaks, if undetected, cost companies through consumption charges, reduced water pressure, material damage and, if in a sensitive area, interrupted production and loss of business.

A moderate leak (1 litre per second) on the mains supply would typically add £55,000 to a company’s annual bill. However, leaks can exist underground for years without being detected and frequently where water is seen breaking the surface is not where the pipe is actually leaking.

The Waterscan Water Leak service deploys our highly skilled team of leak detection engineers who can pinpoint leaks precisely with a comprehensive site survey. Different techniques are employed to first narrow the search for the leak into a zone then pinpoint the leak, typically to less than half a metre. This ensures that a repair can be carried out in the shortest possible time and with minimal disruption to the site while reducing the potential cost arising from the leakage.

As part of our Leak Detection service the technicians will confirm the source and volume of the leak with a proposal to remedy through the following process:

MAPPING

All mains water supplies are mapped and zones established

USAGE

Flow rate and average daily usage is recorded

TESTING

Flow and pressure tests are conducted

TRACING

Utilising specialist equipment and techniques to pinpoint the leak swiftly and accurately

Leak Repair

Once we have precisely located the leak, our engineers will carry out the necessary repair.
This work could include:

MAPPING

REPAIR/REPLACEMENT OF EXTERNAL WATER SUPPLIES

REINSTATEMENT OF ALL SURFACE TYPES

Automated Meter Reading (AMR)

Informed management decisions for clarity and control of water consumption

Our AMR devices are installed by experienced Waterscan technicians primarily on revenue meters or deployed at strategic points. Upon installation, an initial review of water consumption is undertaken against industry benchmarks and identifies any irregular usage patterns. From here, we work with you to address any issues and provide recommendations for reducing consumption. Parameters are then agreed and set for continued monitoring.

FLOW RATE COMPARISONS AND ANALYSIS

IMMEDIATE SMS AND EMAIL ALERTS WHEN VOLUMES EXCEED EXPECTATION

ABILITY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS

Surface Water Survey

Many companies do not realise they are being overcharged for wastewater services, in particular surface water drainage, and that they are eligible to claim savings back from the relevant companies.

Waterscan uses the latest mapping software to identify sites that have potentially been overcharged. The sites are then surveyed, drawings are prepared and applications submitted to the water companies to refund the potential overcharges.

As a result of over 20 years experience and expertise more than £2.8 million in refunds has been achieved for our clients since March 2012.

Trade Effluent Consents

REDUCE TRADE EFFLUENT Discharge costs and remain compliant

The Water Industries Act 2002 requires companies discharging liquid effluent or wastewater to a sewer to obtain a trade effluent discharge consent from the appropriate authority. These bodies are required by law to accept your effluent as long as it conforms to certain standards.

The charges for this service are levied according to a modified Mogden Formula. Parameters applied relate to total volume flow, the average COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) and average suspended solids (SS) concentration. Despite volume and quality being the most important cost factors it is not uncommon for effluent flows not to be measured. We will help you control your discharge quality and ensure that no product or other material enters the effluent stream unnecessarily. Where possible we also analyse the potential for direct discharge to a watercourse.